November 15, 2010 – In the
latest issue of NFPA Journal®, the official magazine of the
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Kenneth Lauziere, the former chief fire marshal for the Office of the Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., provides a firsthand account of the critical acceptance testing process for the $621 million Capitol Visitor Center, and what it was like to have Congress watching over his shoulder, in the cover story,
We Had to Get it Right.
NFPA’s “U.S. Large-Loss Fires” study reviews the 24 large-loss fires and explosions that occurred in 2009, which caused a total of roughly $940 million in direct property loss. For the full 2009 U.S. large-loss fire report, visit www.nfpa.org/largeloss2009.
Video available: NFPA’s new Faces of Fire campaign puts a human face on the association’s Fire Sprinkler Initiative.
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